The new president of Harvard University becomes a prime suspect in the death of Rosezella Maynette Fisher, the opinionated, African-American Dean of Students at Harvard Law School, and it is up to economics professor and amateur sleuth Veronica Chase to solve the crime. Reprint.
This is a collection of stories. In Karen White Owens's Baby Its Cold Outside, Resa Warren reluctantly accepts a job and moves to cold Michigan. When she meets handsome skier Clay Shire, he lights a fire in her heart.
One Minute a Free Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Struggle for Freedom
Shortly after noon on that bright, sunny Monday, Jule walked to the workshop of Mr. Peter Bryant, a glassblower, to negotiate new terms. For months he had supplied Jule with bottles and jars for her various concoctions in exchange for ...
In the present chapter, I shall focus on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Morrison's narrative stands as her initial attempt at generic denigration, as her first effort to create what she has elsewhere called "A genuine Black . . . Book.
This book has been written to tell the story of the Sojourner Truth Statue Committee for the commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Sojourner Truth Statue completed and dedicated in Northampton on October 6, 2002.
This book, out of print for many decades but again available, tells the personal side of living and working in Washington, but also the struggles of a black woman, both as slave and as free woman, in the turbulent times of the Civil War
Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in The Whitehouse
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Hill Testifies against Clarence Thomas In August 1991 an aide to Ohio Democrat Senator Howard Metzenbaum , a member of the Judiciary Committee , received a tip that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed Anita Hill during her employment with ...
Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America's most seminal women writers. A testament...